Syrian President Bashar Assad is deriding America’s past military debacles in Vietnam and Iraq, as he tries to fend off Western intervention in his country’s civil war.

Military intervention, Assad said in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia, would bring “failure just like in all the previous wars they waged, starting with Vietnam and up to our days.”

Assad reiterated his denial that his forces had used chemical weapons, calling the accusation an “outrage against common sense” and said it was “not us but our enemies who are using chemical weapons.”

An Obama Administration official said there’s “very little doubt” that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in the attack last Wednesday, crossing what President Barack Obama last year called a “redline.” U.N. inspectors on their way to inspect the site of the attack drew sniper fire Monday and were momentarily forced to turn back.

IF ASSAD
IS BACKED BY TYRANTS, THESE TYRANTS CAN TOO BE BACKED INTO FEARFUL
POSITIONS... IF THEY THINK THEY HAVE WEAPONS, JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY GET
THE AMERICAN DEATH MACHINE ON THEM, NOT TO MENTION ISRAEL GOLIATH KILLER
MACHINE----

AMERICA DID NOT LOSE THE WARS, AMERICA SIMPLY DID NOT WANT
THE REAL ESTATE.... OVER A MILLION VIETNAMESE KILLED, AND PROBABLY SO IN
IRAQ, DOES NOT GIVE ANYONE THE SENSE TO BOAST ABOUT BEATING AMERICA...

AMERICA HAS WON EVERY WAR, DEATH WISE, SINCE THE WORLD HAS A HISTORY OF
IT... AMERICA HAS NEVER LOST, AND IF WE DO, WE WILL BRING DEATH UPON THE
EARTH ITSELF, IF AMERICA IS TOO BIG FOR THE WORLD, THE WORLD IS TOO
SMALL FOR THE TRASH, DEATH, HELL AND DESTRUCTION AMERICA WILL LEAVE BEHIND ITS WAR PATH...

This time there won't be troops on the ground but cruise missiles and airstrikes on selected targets like palaces, command centers, barracks, airfields, missile sites, etc. Mr. Assad, I'm sure your opponents know exactly where you and your commanders are at all times. Let's see how long it takes for your opponents to find you hiding in a sewer like your compadres Saddam and Gaddafi.

Foreign Minister of Russia
Sergey Victorovich Lavrov: «One very wise man in response to the charges in the
address of the UN in the fact that it is not enough what does and does not in a
position to stop constantly appearing somewhere conflicts, he said that the UN
was not created in order to make the earth a Paradise, but for the fact that
humanity was not in hell."

Lakhdar Brahimi: "if
the only alternative is really hell or a political process, then all of us
should work tirelessly for a political process."

Assad's failure to deal with opposition rationally is the root of all this trouble. Let's be clear about that.

However, when he says, "Failure awaits the United States as in all previous wars it has unleashed, starting with Vietnam and up to the present day" he's spot on.

Vietnam -- a fiasco and a failure. Millions dead.

Iraq -- a fiasco and a failure.It's now an Iranian ally.

Afghanistan - a fiasco and a failure. Back to the Taliban.

The US did triumph over Grenada, and its intervention in the Dominican Republic was successful, of course.

"But Assad's great miscalculation is in not realizing that at some point the costs of inaction simply outweigh the cost of action for Washington and its allies. It does not serve the United States, the European Union, or anyone else well to be seen as feckless in the face of such horrors. It undermines the legitimacy of the international order and makes it more likely that other despots will employ similar tactics. "

The US and Britain have just declared they will act whether the UN Security Council agrees or not. By the brilliant light of George W. Bush's reasoning -- and the criminal actions of his and Obama's administrations -- we've validated a preemptive strike by Syria.

OK, there is no international law. We all see that. Let loose the dogs of war.

President Bashar al-Assad
stressed that Syria
is a sovereign country that will fight terrorism and will freely build
relationships with countries in a way that best serves the interests of the
Syrian people.

In an interview with the
Russian newspaper of Izvestia, President al-Assad stressed that "the
majority of those we are fighting are Takfiris, who adopt the al-Qaeda
doctrine, in addition to a small number of outlaws."

On the alleged use of
chemical weapons, President al-Assad said that the statements by the US
administration, the West and other countries were made with disdain and blatant
disrespect of their own public opinion, adding that "there isn’t a body in
the world, let alone a superpower, that makes an accusation and then goes about
collecting evidence to prove its point."

Bashar al-Assad stressed
that these accusations are completely politicised and come on the back of the
advances made by the Syrian Army against the terrorists.

President
of the Syrian Arab
Republic told about threat of US
invasion, about his relationship with Putin and about common fate of Russian
and Syrian people.

Mr Assad, you are correct. Still, the regime fell in Vietnam (albeit replaced by another one), pretty much like Hussein in Iraq. So in the end, our perceived failures and our perceived reluctance to learn from them will have the same impact on your regime: you are on your way OUT!

Assad is correct in his historical assessment of the U.S. global interference. All failures. But as is typical, that never stops the U.S. from continuing its interference, even though the vast majority of Americans want nothing to do with it.

The second quote is from Foreign Policy Magazine, by an apologist of the American administration. It's an example of the kind of ridiculous "justification" being offered up as a rationale for these criminal actions it apparently plans."

@Sibir_Russia Did Russia ask for UN permission to pulverize Chechnya or Georgia? I don't think US intervention in Syria will go well for anyone, but Russian nationalists are funny ones to talk about restraint.

The US and Britain have already declared that the UN Security Council is irrelevant. So Russia's veto won't stop this.

Only Russian and Iranian weapons in place will deter this madness. With its insane declarations about proceeding without the UN, the US and the British poodle have declared that international law no longer exists.

I really hope you're correct, and that Obama will just launch some cruise missile attacks at a few military installations, wave his Johnson a few times at the world, and STFU. (If you notice contempt in my voice, I can say Obama has earned it with these dumb-*ss moves.)

Syria has exactly the "right" to preemptive action that both Israel and the US claim all the time.

My real worry is the rogue Israeli state -- which may use this as a pretext to launch its own attacks. I hope Russia has made it clear to these lunatics that Israel will suffer major damage in such an event, and will be foolish to start a war with Russia. Your government has to be serious, and determined in this course. Pick your targets well -- disabling the IAF will prevent an israeli strike on Iran, for example, and make the children of Lebanon a bit safer.

The chart is in Russian, many, if not most of the American readership can't read it.

DEFCON 3 after 9\11? Why should we copy of Americans DEFCON? Russia
peace country. We is not going to wage war with the United States and
Britain. the ball on the U.S. side. Barack Obama is bluffing. We
won't copy such equivalent .

V. Putin "the U.S. of being interested in relations with Moscow because Russia
was the only country that could destroy the U.S. in half an hour or less."

If the USA and the UK is not going to observe the UN Charter, declare about it to his people and close its membership in this organization. An attack on Syria is also a violation of the NATO Charter. Let NATO rewrite the Charter.

Russia has
called on the United States
and other countries to act sensibly because a search for excuses to justify any
possible military intervention in Syria bypassing the UN Security
Council (UNSC) might result in a catastrophe, Russian Foreign Ministry
spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.